This document is the August 2013 bulletin for the Jodo Mission of Hawaii. It announces their upcoming Bon Dance festival on August 16-17 from 6:30-9:30pm each night. The bulletin provides details on food, dances, games and sales that will be part of the event. It also lists upcoming practice times and calls for volunteers. Additionally, it shares photos from past Bon Dances and O-Bon memorial services. The bulletin closes with obituaries of deceased members and the Eitaikyo perpetual memorial service list for August.

1. JodoMissionofHawaii
Bulletin-AUGUST2013
JodoMissionofHawaii
1429MakikiSt.
HonoluluHI96814
AddressServiceRequested
(#1201-0813)
Bon Dance 盆おどり
August 16, Friday: 6:30pm-9:30pm
August 17, Saturday: 6:30pm-9:30pm
(August 16, Friday: 5:45pm
Jizo Bon prayer will be held in front of Jizo statue)
Please come, bring your kimonos, happi
coats and dance around the yagura and
enjoy the many food items: bentos, BBQ
sticks, saimin, sushi, yaki soba, soba salad, spam
musubi, Andagi (Okinawan donuts), hot dog, chili,
chili and rice, pull pork sandwiches, waffle dog, juice,
soda, shave ice, water, etc.
Food Booths will start at 4:30pm
Kiddie games will also be available
Getting ready for the Bon Dance
Dancers enjoying
themselves around the
yagura
Games for
children

2. Helping with Bon Dance Preparation: If you are willing to help with Bon Dance
preparation, your help is most appreciated. Please come to the Temple on Thursday,
Aug 15 and/or Friday, Aug 16 and/or Saturday, Aug 17 at 9:00 a.m. If you are only avail-
able in the evening during Bon Dance hours, we can also use your help. Please contact
the Temple for more information.
Bon Dance Practice: Bon dance practice will be held Tuesday, August 13 and
Wednesday, August 14, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome to practice or
learn from instructors in the inner circle.
Jodo Mission Happi Coats: Jodo Mission
will be selling its own happi coats. If you are
interested you may contact Jodo Mission or
come to the Bon Dance.
Above photo, people are getting ready for Bon Dance.
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Prayer is given before Bon Dance begins
Bon Dance is the fellowship part of ancestor
worship—Dancing is for everyone! Yummy
foods of all kinds! Games for children! Happi
coats and bon dance towels for sale
People enjoy
watching the
dancers happily
go around the
yagura.
Children enjoy
playing games.

3. 1. When Someone Passed Away
Death
↓
Medical examination
↓
Call for a minister
↓
Makuragyo (Bedside service)
↓
Call for a mortuary
↓
Body pick-up
↓
Meeting with the funeral director at the
mortuary
↓
Viewing service
↓
Cremation
↓
FUNERAL with the first 7th
day service
↓
49th day service
Burial service
↓
Hatsubon (1st O-Bon) service
↓
1 year memorial service
2. When Someone Is Very Close To Death
Call for a minister
↓
Rinju Gyogi (Last rites)
↓
Death
↓
Medical examination
↓
Call for a mortuary
↓
Body pick-up
↓
Meeting with the funeral director at the
mortuary
↓
Viewing service
↓
Cremation
↓
FUNERAL with the first 7th
day service
↓
49th day service
Burial service
↓
Hatsubon (1st O-Bon) service↓
↓
1 year memorial service
VISION FOR THE FUTURE (5)
By Rev. Yubun Narashiba
Japanese Buddhism in Hawaii has a very unique cultural background.
In Japan, Buddhist customs differ from village to village, town to town,
prefecture to prefecture. This is because Buddhism has been localized to fit to the custom
in each area. Since Japanese immigrants came to Hawaii from the various regions of
Japan, ceremonial customs are different according to the area where the family came from.
However, as time passes, those customs are becoming unclear and more confusing for the
younger generations. Because of this confusion, younger generations seem to be going
away from Buddhism by saying that Buddhism is hard to understand. Therefore, in this
article, I would like to explain the standard procedure of doing a service. As the first, let me
show you the two common procedures of having funerals among the members of Jodo
Mission of Hawaii.
Note: Above two service procedures are purely for informational purpose. We shall honor your family customs and
decisions to arrange a funeral service.
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**Editor’s note: This article is a reprint from our August 2011 issue. Because this article contains information you will need to
know some day, we will be reprinting it from time to time as space permits.

4. Thank You to All Who Participated with O-Bon Activities
Thank you to all who attended our O-Bon Services. It is so nice to see so many fami-
lies come to pay respects to their deceased ancestors. For some of you, this may have been your
first experience. Hope you enjoyed our services, including the private services. Thank you also
for the many monetary and rice donations.
Thank you to all our ministers who performed the many O-Bon services (2 services
for Hatsubon families and 5 other O-Bon services). Thank you Bishop Gensho Hara and Rev.
Yubun Narashiba for conducting services on July 12 and 13 and Rev. Narashiba for the special
O-Bon Service on July 14. Thank you also to Rev. Nakano, Rev. Watanabe for your help with
O-Bon services. A special thank you to Rev. Koji Ezaki of Haleiwa Jodo Mission for his help
with the Friday services. So many families requested private services in front of their O-Tobas.
Thank you to Rev. Narashiba, Rev. Nakano and Rev. Watanabe who conducted these private
O-Toba services. Thank you again to all our ministers for your many hours of chanting
during our ancestors’ visit at O-Bon!
Thank you to all who came to help with the O-Toba set up and general cleaning on
June 30th. As you can see from the photos on this page, it is hard work to put the O-Tobas up.
We could not do it without your help! Hope you enjoyed yourselves and that while you worked
hard, you enjoyed the fellowship, which is very important.
Thank you to the Fujinkai ladies who prepared meals for the ministers and workers
during O-Bon. Thank you to the Sr. YBA for providing beautiful chrysanthemum potted
plants for sale.
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O-Toba Set Up Photos
[Most photos were taken in 2012; but the same amount of
work and manpower is involved with the O-Toba set up]
It takes 2 men for each O-Toba - one to position and
holdthe O-Toba while the other pounds 2 nails to secure
the O-Toba. Above is Richard Murashige and friend work-
ing together. Left photo is Rev. Nakano and Clifford Miya-
moto working together
Both men and women volunteers carry O-Tobas. Above is Dean
Soma, Catherine Fujihana and Lianne Kitajima carrying
O-Tobas to be placed in their positions.
Many O-Tobas
are in the truck
waiting to be set
up. It was a
beautiful, sunny
day. When all
the O-Tobas are
set up—how
beautiful they
look on the Tem-
ple grounds!

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O-BON PHOTOS
Faces you remember when going to
O-Bon service: above is Mae Yo-
rimoto who volunteers in the office.
Right is Doris Soma and Aki
Nishiyama at the sign-in desk. Diane
Okubo was at the Choba desk, how-
ever we did not have a photo of Diane.
Many families attend O-Bon service
Right photo is in front of the Segaki-dan. Seated are Debbie
Nakata, Tomoko Hisamoto, Sophie Narashiba, Yukari
Narashiba and Yoshiko Kitagawa. Goeka offerings are
done at the 2:00 p.m. services on Friday and Saturday.
[This photo was from 2012.]
After each O-Bon Service, ministers go through
each row of O-Tobas and give a prayer to each O
-Toba. Members also follow the ministers
through each row of O-Tobas.
Rainbow Pigeons Ceremony: This was our second
year in ending our O-Bon Services with the releasing
of Rainbow Pigeons to lead our ancestors back to the
Pure Land. [Again this year we do not have photos of
the Rainbow Pigeons flying. Perhaps by the next
month’s Bulletin, someone will share the photos they
took of the Rainbow Pigeons. Last year like this year-
Sophie Narashiba opened the cage to release the
pigeons: white ones, green ones, pink ones, orange
ones, purple ones—so beautiful!
Fujinkai Craft Fair
Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai recently held its first out-
side vendor craft fair on Sunday, June 23, 2013. With the help
of Diane Okubo (who volunteers at the Betsuin office) approx-
imately 14 different outside vendors—selling Tupperware, baby futons, Nerium skin products,
hand designed earrings & bracelets, Thirty-One Bags and Accessories, Asian table lamps, ori-
gami pictures, money leis, pet products, Hawaiian salt seasonings, kettle corn, sterling silver
earrings, necklaces, polymer clay products, hair ornaments for Bon Dance, etc. THANK YOU
DIANE AND ALL VENDORS! HOPE YOU HAD FUN!
Fujinkai ladies and supporters made maki sushi, inari sushi, sushi vinegar, saba nitsuke,
kimpira, tsukemono, pull pork sandwiches, vegetable salad, pasta salad, jams and jelly, brown-
ies, cereal mixes for sale. Everything was delicious! THANK YOU FUJINKAI LADIES
AND SUPPORTERS!
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6. Obituaries
The Jodo Mission of Hawaii extends its sincere
condolences to the family members and loved ones of
the following members who have recently left this
world for the Pure Land.
George Sakae Fukuda 85
Soichi Akiyama 95
Charles Yoshito Oshita 89
Dorothy Sakiko Kobayashi 86
James Shoichi Hasebe 89
Janice Yoshiko Kitashiro 89
Richard Shunichi Yoshida 81
Henry Arthur 77
Kazue Ohara 88
Jodo Mission Office Hours:
Monday to Saturday
8am—5pm
Sunday & Holidays
8am—3pm
Phone: 949-3995
Website: www.jodo.us
Rev. Yubun Narashiba
Head Minister
Rev. Kanjun Nakano
Resident Minister
Rev. Dwight
Nakamura
Retired Minister
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Rev. Yasuhiro
Watanabe
2013 BON DANCE SCHEDULE
OF JODO SHU TEMPLES
Island Temple Phone No. Dates Times
Oahu Betsuin 949-3995 Aug 16 to 17 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Haleiwa 637-4382 July 26 to 27 7/26: 8 pm – 10 pm
7/27: 8 pm – 11 pm
Big Island
[Hawaii]
Kurtistown
Call Rev. Miyazaki
(808) 935-6996
August 3 8:00 pm
Hilo July 12 to 13 7/12: 7:30 pm
7/13: 8:00 pm
Hakalau August 17 8:00 pm
Hamakua
Call Rev. Wansa
(808) 775-0965
August 10 6:30 pm
Kohala July 13 6:30 pm
Hawi August 3 6:30 pm
Maui Kahului Call Rev. John Hara
(808) 244-0066
August 10 7:00 pm
Wailuku June 28 7:00 pm
Lahaina (808) 661-4304 July 6 7:00 pm
Kapaa (808) 822-4319 August 2 to 3 7:30 pmKauai
Koloa (808) 742-6735 July 5 to 6 7:30 pm
Apology for July Eitaikyo List: We apologize
for incorrectly spelling the following deceased per-
son’s name or placing name on incorrect day:
7/7: Kenneth Tsugio Ito
7/26: Pauline Aiko Nakamura

7. EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for August
2 Sato Hirouji
The Miyamasu Family
The Hirouji Family
The Nakamura Family
Tadashi Nakamura
Janet Okawa
3 Satsu Hashimoto
The Hashimoto Family
4 Masaichi Harada
Tsuru Nomura
The Nomura Family
Sumako Iguchi
Kenkichi Kimoto
Keisuke Masuda
5 Tori Matsubara
The Matsubara Family
Tahei Higashimura
The Higashimura Family
Mantaro Nitta
Toichiro Tomita
Yutaka Kubota
6 Toshiko Nishimura
Yoshio Fujii
7 Kametaro Yano (2)
The Yano Family
The Yano, Konaka &
Hayashi Family
Chokichi Tanaka
The Tanaka Family
Aiko Fukuhara
The Inouye Family
Kikuno Yamane
Kaneichi Kato
8 Takao Tsuda
Kitae Yamanaka
The Yamanaka Family
Zentoku Takara
Kame Taira
Russel Hideo Uehara
9 Takeo Sato
The Sato & Suzuki Family
Hiro Yonemoto
Tora Higashi
The Hashimoto Baby
Evelyn Murakami
Yonemoto Family
The Higashi Family
10 Seitaro Yamamoto
The Suzuki & Yamamoto Family
Takaji Shigeoka
Kinichi Imai
Saburo Nishimura
Ito Fujita
The Fujita Family
Hideo Yamagata
11 Tomegusu Kotake
Kuranoshin Matsumoto
12 Hatsuichi Karimoto
14 Ashizuchi Fujikami
The Fujikami Family
Shizuo Yokomichi
The Yokomichi & Kondo Family
Iichi Yanagihara
Yoshijiro Iwamoto
15 Maki Hara
The Hara Family
Bishop Shoshin Inouye
The Nose Family
Sata Nitta
Torano Toyoshiba
Noboru Hamamura
Hatsue Yamada Watanabe
Robert Tokusai Kaneshiro
16 Masao Mizuno
The Mizuno & Ohta Family
Ume Miyamasu
The Miyamasu Family
The Masaki Family
Yoneo Masuda
The Masuda Family
17 Toshikata Shinagawa
David Kenji Moritsugu
Kiyoji Yamamoto
Kazuyo Furukawa
18 Mitsuru Morisako
The Morisako & Ishii Family
Shinsuke Mito
The Mito Family
Fuji Yasumoto
Hanayo Imai
Miyuki Ono
Toraichi Kurakake
Rev. Ryokai Yamanaka
Ruysuke Machida
Haruo Okuhara
19 Eiko Maeda
The Maeda Family
Kiyoshi Hisamura
Hisano Oyabu
The Oyabu & Kondo Family
Wakichi Suzui Family
Takeshi Umetsu
Sakae Matsumoto
20 Shizue Iwamoto
Henry Hashimoto
Kame Namihira
Chie Nakagawa
21 Yoshisuke Sato
The Sato & Suzuki
Yutaka Tejima
The Tejima Family
Saka Kuniyuki
Morishige Inage
Misao Kuniyuki
Yoshi Nishimura
Toshiyuki Ogawa
Toraichi Kurakake
22 Yuri Hironaka
The Hironaka & Ishimoto Family
Masuichi Tabata
Miyoko Hokushin Takenouchi
23 Yoshisuke Masuda
Raymond Totsuji Nishiyama
24 Kazuo Kano
The Kano & Wataba Family
Teisuke Hamamoto
The Hamamoto Family
Eizo Fukuda
Tatsuki Heirakuji
Sueko Onaga
25 Tema Iuchi
The Iuchi Family
Kiku Masuda
The Masuda & Asamura Family
Etsuko Ohta
The Ohta Family
Koji Yasumoto
Gladys Otsui Ikeda
26 Tadasuke Nishida
Masaji Ishida
Umeno Masuda
Torao Maehara
27 Harumi tasaka
Shigeo Kobashigawa
The Kobashigawa Family
28 Hitoshi Mizuno
The Mizuno & Ohta Family
Seikuro Hisamura
Shichiemon Ebisuzaki (2)
Hana Noyama
29 Tadashi Higashi
The Higashi Family
Kenji Hamada
The Hamada Family
Atsushi Fujita
The Fujita Family
Masahiko Miyagi
30 Thomas Takeshi Tanaka
Elsie Kikuya Tatei
Katsumi Nishimoto
Sojoro Takamura
31 Toshiyasu Misawa (2)
Misawa & Watanabe Family
Misawa Family
Akira Misawa
Riyo Yano
Edith Kiyoko Kaneshiro

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